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Their statewide slate for 2010 is already shaping up as one of the most extreme, far-left groups of out-of-touch politicians in recent memory.  John Cherry is `proudly' running on a record of failure and futility while their AG candidate, Gretchen Whitmer, makes Fieger-Time look as conservative as John Engler.  The only hope for the slate is potential SoS candidate Janice Winfrey, one of the few Democrats in Detroit with even a modicum of capability.

And now in two of the state's largest cities THIS is what voters are offered in Mayoral races?

The Flint Journal reports on the rapidly growing field of candidates for their leadership post, after it was vacated via the resignation of their last corrupt Democratic Mayor.  The list includes an ultra-liberal former legislator, a local board of education member and a failed former Democratic candidate who it appears only moved to the city to run for Mayor.  Among others.

But Flint looks positively cosmopolitan after reading the Motor City update courtesy of this morning's Detroit News.  

The racist who orchestrated the City Council's decision to reject nearly $300 million in "free money" for Cobo Hall because out-staters would be involved in the project... the same woman who was recently arrested for a bar fight, who called her former colleague Shrek and who made fun of a political opponent's alleged battle with cancer, Congressman John Conyers' wife Monica says she might just run as a write-in candidate.  

"People have asked me," said Conyers, who remains council president at least through the May 5 special election for Detroit mayor. "I haven't said anything. I just listened."

The Call 'Em Out Coalition is encouraging Conyers to run. The Detroit-based organization is known for the "Sambo" awards it bestows on people it feels are selling out Detroit. Representatives of the organization couldn't be reached for comment.

Cobo, for the record, is the "crown jewel of Detroit."  According to the good folks at CEOC.  

"Sambo," by the way, is not a nice word.  The NAACP hasn't buried this one yet, but I'm sure its somewhere on their target list.

If any other politician, running for any other office, anywhere else in Michigan were considering accepting the support and listening to the council of a group that handed out "Sambo" awards, they'd be called on the carpet quicker than you can say "Jack Robinson."  Or in this case, "Jim Crow."

The wife of a Congressman should be held to no less intense a standard.  Just because the woman lives and works and operates in Detroit doesn't give her a pass to participate and legitimize these sorts of vile, repugnant racial politics.

For a "post-racial" America coming off the historic election of our first African-American President, Detroit sure is managing to put on an embarrassing show this week.  One way or the other, Congressman Conyers and his wife are going to tell the bigots and the hate-mongers where they can stick their brand of racism... they'll either justly and publicly denounce them, telling them to stick it where the sun doesn't shine or they'll quietly embrace them without a single word of outrage, making hate mainstream in the Motor City.  

If their Cobo Hall shenanigans are any indication, we probably shouldn't get our hopes up.

Much worse, though, is the darker reality hiding beneath an Ivory Tower story about the closing of a single small business in downtown Detroit.

The owners of Zaccaro's Market set-up shop less than a year ago amid all of the hullabaloo about the renaissance of the Motor City.  There were promises of new jobs, new development, new housing and rebirth.  There weren't just promises either... there were reports and plans and momentum.  

Remember the Governor's State of the State speech and that twenty-minute self-adulation session in the middle where she took credit for promises of thousands of new jobs?  Commitments, pledges, plans, the whole deal?  

Cindy Warner heard those same golden dreams ten months ago and bought them, hook, line and sinker.  One little problem... promises and pledges and plans aren't the same as real jobs.

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